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CV – Igor Chilingarian Dr. Igor Chilingaryan (publishing as Chilingarian) born 1980/May/16 in Moscow, USSR citizenship: French and Russian; marital status: single never married languages: Russian (native), English (fluent), French (good), Spanish (basic) Professional Preparation Moscow State University (Russia) Astronomy MSc, honour degree, 2003 Moscow State University (Russia) and Universite de Lyon-1 (France) Astrophysics PhD, 2006 Observatoire de Paris (France), postdoc 2006–2009 Observatoire de Strasbourg (France), postdoc 2009–2011 Moscow State University (Russia) Astrophysics DSc (habilitation), 2010 Appointments Researcher, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University Apr/2006–Dec/2006 Adjunct Researcher, —//— Dec/2006–Dec/2010 Adjunct Leading Researcher, —//— Dec/2010–present Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Sep/2011–present Invited talks at international conferences and workshops • Multi-wavelength Astronomy and the Virtual Observatory Workshop (Villafranca del Castillo, Spain, 1-3 Dec 2008): “Virtual Observatory for Astronomers: Where Are We Now?” • Dynamics and evolution of disc galaxies (Moscow, Russia, 31/May-04/Jun 2010): “Discs in dwarf early- type galaxies” • European Planetary Science Congress (Rome, Italy, 20-24/Sep/2010): “Virtual Observatory powered research in astrophysics” • Early-type Dwarf Galaxies: Origin, Evolution, Characteristics (Heidelberg, Germany, 18-20/Oct/2010): “Stellar populations of dwarf early-type galaxies” • ADASS-XX (Boston, USA, 7-11 Nov 2010): Tutorial “Cross-identifying data resources in the VO era” • European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (St.Petersburg, Russia, 4-8 Jul 2011): “VO powered research in extragalactic astrophysics” • ADASS-XXII (Champaign, IL, USA, 4-8 Nov 2012): Tutorial “How the VO Gets Richer and Helps Solve Fundamental Problems of Extragalactic Astrophysics” • ADASS-XXV (Sydney, Australia, 25-29 Oct 2015): Tutorial (joint with I.Zolotukhin) “New Tools for X-ray Astrophysics in the Epoch of Data and Software Interoperability” • High-Energy Astrophysics 2018 (Moscow, Russia, 18-22 Dec 2018): “A population of intermediate-mass black holes identified as low-luminosity active galactic nuclei” • 52 invited talks at scientific seminars/colloquia and 50 contributed conference talks in 2001–2020 Honors/awards • 2003: D. Martynov award for the master thesis • 2006: 2nd prize for the PhD thesis in physics/astronomy at Moscow State University • 2007: Armenian Astronomical Society Annual Prize for young astronomers • 2012: Medal for young scientists by the Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of physics/astronomy • 2018: Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Prize Grants/contracts • 2002, 2003: Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) young researcher grants in IT 02-07-06096 (PI), 03-07-06116 (PI) • 2008–2010: co-I of the joint Russian-Flemish RFBR–Flanders grant “V3D: 3D spectroscopic survey of the Virgo cluster and nearby groups” (∼100 kEUR) • 2006–2011: PI and co-I in several research projects funded by VO-France (Action Specifique de l’Observatoire Virtuel), VO-Paris Data Centre, PNG/PNCG (Programme Nationale Galaxies). • 2009, 2012: ESO Visiting Scientist (Santiago, Chile) 1 • 2012–2013: PI of the President of Russia grant for young doctors of science (∼$33k per year) • 2014–2016: co-PI of a Russian laboratory scale grant, ∼$350k per year • 2015–2017: PI of three grants in Russia for a total amount of ∼$80k per year • 2017–2018: PI of 2 NASA contracts allocated for Chandra DDT proposals ($18k+$19k) • 2018: co-chair of the “leading scientific school in astrophysics” at Moscow State University ($300k) • 2019–2021: PI of the Russian Science Foundation grant ($120k/year) Membership on advisory committees (internal and external) • Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics committee on high-performance computing (2017–present) • Russian expert corps in natural sciences, physics and astronomy (2010–present) • Foreign expert in physics/astronomy of the Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia (2011–present) Refereeing activities arXiv: 1 of the 6 moderators for arXiv.astro-ph Peer-reviewed journals: Nature, Astronomy & Astrophysics, MNRAS, ApJ, ApJS, ApJL, PASP, Journal of Physics B, Astronomy Letters, Astronomy and Computing, Baltic Astronomy Grant proposals: National Science Foundation, USA (2016, 2017); European Research Council Advanced Grants (2018); NSERC Research Grants, Canada (2019); Russian Science Foundation (2014–2019): propos- als on all scales from small groups (∼$150k/yr) to key projects in Russian astronomy (∼$15M/yr). An examiner of a PhD thesis by C.Usher (2013, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Responsibility for meetings/scientific conferences ESA Workshop “Optical Spectroscopy and the Virtual Observatory” (Spain, Mar/2007) – SOC member Telescope time PI of proposals at: Calar-Alto (3.5m), Russian BTA (6m), Magellan (6.5m), MMT (6.5m), Gemini (8m) ground- based telescopes (∼60 nights in total); Swift, Chandra, XMM-Newton space observatories Educational activities • Sep/2003 – Jan/2004: “Programming for Astronomers” two full 1-semester courses taught for the 1st and 2nd year undergraduates at the Moscow State University (Russia) • Oct/2007: mini-course of 3 lectures and 2 hands-on demo sessions at the Virtual Observatory School (Institute of the Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, University of Vilnius, Lithuania) • Jun/2010: Invited lecture and a hands-on demo session at the Astroinformatics and the Virtual Observa- tory summer school (University of Belgrade, Serbia) • Sep/2010: Lecture at the IAU International School for Young Astronomers-2010, Yerevan, Armenia • Sep/2012: Invited lecture at the GAIA/LSST Visualisation School, Seattle, USA • Feb/2018: A 3-days long crash course on stellar physics and galaxy evolution for engineering students, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates I supervised 2 senior undergraduate students at MIT and Wellesley, 7 undergrad students, 4 MSc students, 2 PhD students, 1 habilitation at Moscow State University; I supervise and remotely manage a research group of 4 PhD researchers and 11 students in Moscow (since 2012) Media coverage and public outreach Since 2009, 15 research papers authored/co-authored by me were accompanied by press-releases by CNRS, Moscow State University, CfA; I was interviewed by Russian nation-wide TV stations in 2012 and 2017. My 2015 Science paper on compact elliptical galaxies was covered by NatGeo, Discovery, Slashdot, Gizmodo, MSN News. My 2018 ApJ paper on itermediate-mass black holes had a full-page highlight article in Science. 3 public lectures and 6 featured interviews to media outlets since 2013 Bibliometric data 2111 citations (1141 as 1st author) listed in ADS as of Apr/2020; H-index: 25; 66 published refereed papers (24 as 1st author + 14 as 2nd author); 2 peer-reviewed Virtual Observatory standards 2 Complete List of Publications – Igor Chilingarian Refereed papers: 1. Shapovalova, A. I.; Doroshenko, V. T.; Bochkarev, N. G.; Burenkov, A. N.; Carrasco, L.; Chavushyan, V. H.; Collin, S.; Valds, J. R.; Borisov, N.; Dumont, A.-M.; Vlasuyk, V. V.; Chilingarian, I.; Fioktistova, I. S.; Martinez, O. M.; 2004; A&A; v.422, p.925; “Profile variability of the Hα and Hβ broad emission lines in NGC 5548” 2. Lipunov, V. M.; Krylov, A. V.; Kornilov, V. G.; Borisov, G. V.; Kuvshinov, D. A.; Belinsky, A. A.; Kuznetsov, M. V.; Potanin, S. A.; Antipov, G. A.; Tyurina, N. V.; Gorbovskoy, E. S.; Chilingaryan, I. V.; 2004; AN; v.325, p.580; “MASTER: The Mobile Astronomical System of Telescope-Robots” 3. Chilingarian, I.; Sil’chenko, O.; Afanasiev V.; Prugniel Ph.; 2007; “Astronomy Letters”, 33, 292: “Young nuclei in dwarf elliptical galaxies” 4. Chilingarian, I.; Prugniel P.; Sil’chenko O.; Afanasiev V.; 2007; MNRAS, 376, 1033: “Kinematics and stellar populations of the dwarf elliptical galaxy IC 3653” 5. Chilingarian, I.; Cayatte, V.; Chemin, L.; Durret, F.; Lagan, T. F.; Adami, C.; Slezak, E.; 2007; A&A, 466, L21: “Discovery of a new M 32-like Compact Elliptical galaxy in the halo of the Abell 496 cD galaxy” 6. Chilingarian, I. and Mamon, G. A.; 2008; MNRAS, 385, L83: “SDSSJ124155.33+114003.7 – a Missing Link Between Compact Elliptical and Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies” 7. Dodonov, S. and Chilingaryan, I.; 2008; “Astrophysical Bulletin”, 63, 1: “Library of reference spectral energy distributions of galaxies for the classification and determination of photometric redshifts of objects” 8. Chilingarian, I.; Cayatte, V.; Durret, F.; Adami, C.; Balkowski, C.; Chemin, L.; Lagana,´ T. F.; Prugniel, Ph.; 2008; A&A; 486, 85: “Kinematics and Stellar Populations of Low-Luminosity Early-type Galaxies in the Abell 496 Cluster” 9. Chilingarian, I.; Cayatte, V.; Bergond, G.; 2008; MNRAS, 390, 906: “Stellar population constraints on the dark matter content and origin of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies” 10. Di Matteo, P.; Combes, F.; Chilingarian, I.; Melchior, A.-L.; Semelin, B. 2008, Astronomische Nachrichten, 9, 952: “Evolution of galaxies in pairs: learning from simulations” 11. Sil’chenko, O.; Chilingarian, I.; Afanasiev, V.; 2009; Astronomy Letters, 35, 75: “The Star Formation History of the Circumnuclear Region in the Barred Galaxy NGC 4245” 12. Chilingarian, I.; 2009, MNRAS, 394, 1229: “Evolution of Virgo cluster dwarf elliptical galaxies I. Spatially-resolved stellar populations and internal kinematics.” 13. Chilingarian, I.; De Rijcke, S.; Buyle, P.; 2009, ApJL, 697, L111: “Internal Kinematics and Stellar Populations of the E+A Galaxy SDSS J230743.41+152558.4”
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    http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/galaxies-galore/ Name: _______________________________________________________________ Background: How Are Galaxies Classified? What Do They Look Like? Edwin Hubble classified galaxies into four major types: spiral, barred spiral, elliptical, and irregular. Most galaxies are spirals, barred spirals, or ellipticals. Spiral galaxies are made up of a flattened disk containing spiral (pinwheel-shaped) arms, a bulge at its center, and a halo. Spiral galaxies have a variety of shapes and are classified according to the size of the bulge and the tightness and appearance of the arms. The spiral arms, which wrap around the bulge, contain numerous young blue stars and lots of gas and dust. Stars in the bulge tend to be older and redder. Yellow stars like our Sun are found throughout the disk of a spiral galaxy. These galaxies rotate somewhat like a hurricane or a whirlpool. Barred spiral galaxies are spirals that have a bar running across the center of the galaxy. Elliptical galaxies do not have a disk or arms. Instead, they are characterized by a smooth, ball-shaped appearance. Ellipticals contain old stars, and possess little gas or dust. They are classified by the shape of the ball, which can range from round to oval (baseball-shaped to football-shaped). The smallest elliptical galaxies (called "dwarf ellipticals") are probably the most common type of galaxy in the nearby universe. In contrast to spirals, the stars in ellipticals do not revolve around the center in an organized way. The stars move on randomly oriented orbits within the galaxy like a swarm of bees.